- Jack Gage: If every girl liked every guy, there'd be too much sexual competition and we couldn't survive the tribal unit.
- Jack Gage: It's like that Chinese poet said: The journey of a thousand miles begins by finding your shoes.
- Nikki Ballard: It took James Joyce 17 years to write 'Ulysses.'
- Jack Gage: That's how long it takes to read it.